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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Amiralty warning: "Rollers break on the beach".

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Once we had rounded Rubha na Lice, to the south of the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse, the fog started to lift. Sadly an RAF Chinook helicopter ...
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Mulling it over with a dram of malt on Islay

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From Eilean Imersay we were now bound for the Isle of Texa on Islay's SE coast. To the east, the distant mountains of Arran rose above t...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008

The great Gargoyle, the tides and eddies of the Mull of Kintyre

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The tide swept us round the rocks below the Mull of Kintyre lighthouse at 12km/hour. There was a difference in water level on either side of...
Sunday, August 03, 2008

Shaggy dogs on Eilean Imersay, Islay

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The SE coast of Islay is a maze of reefs and islands. Some of the channels dry out as the tide recedes like this one inside Eilean Mhic Mhao...
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Friday, August 01, 2008

Losts in the mists of the Mull of Kintyre

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Tony and I were not the only ones rounding the Mull of Kintyre. Quite independently, Rab, Julia and Donald from the Drumchapel and Clydebank...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Sand, sea, sun and blue sky on Islay!

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On the second day of our Islay trip we awoke to find ourselves on an idyllic spread of machair above a white shell sand beach. The sun was s...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

God Knows in the mists of Innean Glen

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We had left Macrihanish in thick fog at 0930am, just as the south going tidal flow started. An hour later we were paddling along a coastline...